Build for Classic

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Fortunately, I have one of the last and greatest G4s. It's about 8  
years old now - I think. So my only concern is whether the drives  
will continue to work forever. (smile) I tried to boot up my SE30 the  
other day and, probably because I had forgotten to keep it plugged in  
so that the battery didn't peter out, it just sat there with a blurry  
screen and nothing else. Some of the external hard drives I used with  
it are still alive, so all is not lost. Just my ability to run System 8.

Thanks for you empathy,

Joe Wilkins

On May 18, 2007, at 10:23 AM, SimPLsol at aol.com wrote:

> Joe,
> I found the transparency annoying as well.
> But Apple has toned it down. I'm running 10.4.9 and all of my  
> windows are
> appropriately solid.
> I liked OS 7 and was disappointed when the initial OS 8 lacked some  
> of the OS
> 7 features. The original OS 9 did not work as well as OS 8.6  
> (especially the
> networking) but it got better. The initial OS X did not have a lot  
> of the
> things we took for granted in OS 9 (labels, springloaded folders,  
> etc.), for that
> matter the initial version could not even print!
> At this point OS X does everything for me that OS 9 did - and a lot  
> more.
> OS 9 is dead. It will never run better. It will never run faster.  
> It will be
> harder and harder to find computers that run it at all. Developers  
> have less
> and less incentive to develop for it.
> Meanwhile OS X gets better with each version. It runs faster  
> because it runs
> on new computers with faster CPUs today. And tomorrow it will be  
> running on
> even faster CPUs. It is the future.
> Maybe, someday, I'll even learn to like the dock.
> Paul Looney